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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2020-08-19 09:35:33 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2020-09-01 16:49:26 -0600
commitc4823983538d5fdf38575b3f3ba3a0d10b7f021a (patch)
tree222a97aabc331ea78a565d74c38b288697e97f30 /drivers/char
parent3310eebafe6f9a872c1f757b3d822dafae9c0cd8 (diff)
raw: deprecate the raw driver
The raw driver has been replaced by O_DIRECT support on the block device in 2002. Deprecate it to prepare for removal in a few kernel releases. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/raw.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/raw.c b/drivers/char/raw.c
index 380bf518338e..ccf5bd528642 100644
--- a/drivers/char/raw.c
+++ b/drivers/char/raw.c
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ static int raw_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
return 0;
}
+ pr_warn_ratelimited(
+ "process %s (pid %d) is using the deprecated raw device\n"
+ "support will be removed in Linux 5.14.\n",
+ current->comm, current->pid);
+
mutex_lock(&raw_mutex);
/*